Freelance Blog Writer & Article Writer

Writer and educator with experience and skills in the field of Art in Humanities. My academic background has prepared me with skills in visual creation, analysis, and the societal consequences of dissemination. Included in the fields are visual communication, advertising, and web-based visual communication and culture. This educational path has also prepared me to work in the advertising and marketing industry with a focus on creation and analysis.

Education

University of South Carolina 9 August 2008Master of Arts -- Art HistorySpecializations in Modern and Contemporary American Art and culture; African American art, literature, history, and culture; art, literature, and protest from the Feminist Movement as well as, Visual Communication and advertising.

University of California Los Angeles 12 December 2003Bachelor of Arts -- Art HistoryAcademic expertise extends from global Pre-historical history and visual representation to contemporary art historical discourse with a particular focus on Gender Studies and Modern and Contemporary Art and visual culture.

Educational Testing Service – GRE Rater May 2011 - Current Rater for the Graduate Record Exam: work reading and scoring both argument and issue prompts from the essay portion of the GRE.

Limestone University -- Adjunct Faculty 12 February 2006 - CurrentArt Appreciation AR 240: Egyptian Art and History through Contemporary American Art and visual culture with special focus paid to African American Art from the Colonial period to the present.Critical Thinking ID 301: a writing intensive course that focuses on the development and refinement of higher-order thinking skills through the analysis and evaluation of a variety of texts and media for clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, significance, fairness and ethics.

Columbia High School -- Secondary English Teacher 9 August 2007 – 29 May 2011Journalism and Mass Communications I and II, Advanced Placement English Literature, British Literature, American Literature, and World Literature.